The 20 Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World (via Flavorwire)
By the Branta Webcrawler • Feb 2nd, 2012 • Category: Branta Recommends, From the Interweb, Recommended Artistic Consumption, Travel
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Erotic books popular with e-readers
By the Branta Webcrawler • Jan 30th, 2012 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb
The Golden Book Gown
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 30th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Graphic Stories, In the Other Arts, Recommended Artistic Consumption
Quill & Quire’s Picks for 2011 Best Fiction
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 28th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, From the Interweb, Lists
Q&A: Theresa Kishkan
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 18th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Goose Lane Authors, InterviewsThe two notions – trees and memory – became entwined and led me to writing about trees and how my life has been shaped by them, shaded by them, nourished by them. I couldn’t have anticipated some of the paths I ventured down but I have to say I loved writing the individual essays and really enjoyed the process of pulling them together into a book.
IKEA’s epic Swedish fontroversy
By the Branta Webcrawler • Nov 3rd, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Essays, From the Interweb, Graphic StoriesFont wars are usually little spats among the cognoscenti, and very welcome, too; they generate publicity and informed debate. But this war had spilled out beyond its normal narrow confines.
Simon Garfield/The National Post
Scandal at World Scrabble Championship
By the Branta Webcrawler • Oct 18th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Contests, Ha HaCanadian Sadcore
By Nathaniel G. Moore • Oct 6th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Brave New World, From the Interweb, Ha Ha, In the Other Arts, PoetryInterview: Zsuzsi Gartner
By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 18th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, Interviews, UncategorizedPosted three new interviews today on The Danforth Review, all part of the revived and revised TDR, now focused on the short story and interviews with short story writers. I have been reading new fiction submissions for a couple of weeks now, but just this morning posted the first new content on TDR in over two years, interviews with Zsuzsi Gartner, Jessica Westhead and Rebecca Rosenblum.
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Fahrenheit 451: Firing up the Reading group
By the Branta Webcrawler • Sep 5th, 2011 • Category: Branta Recommends, From the Interweb, TravelFahrenheit 451: a book that has sold millions of copies, endured for half a century and seems as relevant today as it must have during the Cold War and the era of McCarthy. A red-hot classic. Or at least, so most people say. But what do you think?
Sam Jordison/The Guardian
